St. Maarten – The campaign promises are flying far and wide again in the run-up to the August 29 elections. How did our political parties do in 2010? What did they promise and what became of it?
Let’s begin with an obvious example: the claim

St. Maarten – Between 20 and 25 percent of the population still does not have healthcare insurance, Public Health Minister Cornelius de Weever said at a press briefing of the Democratic Party yesterday. The numbers are improving, because in the rec

St. Maarten – The Judge of Instruction will handle the request by United People’s party candidate Maria Buncamper-Molanus to terminate a possible criminal investigation against her on Monday afternoon. The hearing takes place behind closed doors

When on the campaign trail or even outside of campaigning time, you always hear how arrogant William Marlin is. His so-called arrogance is the loudest rallying cry of the other political parties. Now no man is perfect but most of us that know William

Sometimes political scandals are genuine scandals. They are what they appear on the surface: wrongdoing by people in influential positions who have overstepped their bounds or behaved inappropriately. But the world is rarely so clear cut, rarely so b

As our front page article shows, not all promises political parties make before an election become a reality. Not by a long shot.
There are all kinds of reasons for this. Government fall, as we have witnessed during the now almost complete term of